Seattle-area heat wave results in multiple deaths

A minimum of three individuals’s deaths are linked to final week’s record-breaking warmth wave, and one other three individuals drowned throughout the identical six-day stretch, Seattle and King County well being officers introduced Monday night.

The newest: The deaths — all dominated unintentional — are the primary fatalities that space well being officers have linked to the historic warmth wave.

Particulars: All three individuals who died attributable to probably warmth publicity have been males, per the King County Medical Examiner’s Workplace. They embrace:

• A 64-year-old Seattle resident who died July 27, and a 65-year-old Issaquah resident, who died July 30, each of whom had underlying circumstances associated to alcoholism.
• A 77-year-old Seattle resident with a coronary heart situation died on July 29.

Individually, all three drowning victims have been male, together with:

• A 22-year-old beneath the affect of medication who drowned in Shoreline on July 28.
• A 22-year-old man who drowned on July in Seattle on July 29.
• A 67-man with diabetes who drowned in Seattle on July 31.

What well being officers are saying: As a result of heat-related deaths aren’t at all times readily discovered or confirmed, extra might be reported within the coming days.

Particulars: A minimum of 61 individuals visited space emergency rooms for heat-related sicknesses between Tuesday and Friday final week; emergency room visits for Saturday and Sunday had but to be tallied as of Monday night.

Context: The Puget Sound Area had been beneath an “extreme warmth warning” since Tuesday, July 26, with issues that the temperatures might trigger severe well being dangers.

• The six straight days with 90-plus diploma climate have been accompanied by hotter-than-normal low temperatures within the 60s, per the Nationwide Climate Service.
• Such elevated “excessive lows” can show harmful as a result of individuals aren’t capable of finding reduction from the warmth in a single day — particularly in Seattle, the place most residents do not have air-con of their properties.